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Arthur Milner

ARTHUR MILNER  

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Arthur Milner is an acclaimed Canadian playwright and theatre director. Born in Frankfurt, West Germany, the son of Jewish refugees, Milner emigrated with his parents to Montreal, where his father, an active Zionist, was president of their local synagogue. His published plays include Learning to Live with Personal Growth, 1997, Zero Hour, Crusader of the World, The City, Its Not a Country, Its Winter, Masada and Facts which toured the West Bank and Israel in an Arabic translation in September 2012. He has a long association with the Great Canadian Theatre Company in Ottawa, Canada, where he was Resident Playwright and subsequently Artistic Director. He has worked in play development for the Manitoba Association of Playwrights, the Banff Playwrights Colony and Playwrights Workshop Montreal; and has taught at Canada's National Theatre School, Montreals Concordia University, and at the University of Ottawa and Carleton in Ottawa. His articles on social, economic and arts issues have appeared in Saturday Night and The Globe and Mail, and he is a member of the editorial board of Inroads, A Journal of Opinion. He is also a past President of the Canadian Association of Professional Theatres.

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 1997         Cheap Thrill         City, The         Crusader of the World         Facts         Forest, The         Intimacy         It's Not a Country It's Winter         Joan Henry         Learning to Live with Personal Growth         Masada         Sandinista!         Zero Hour

1997

Synopsis:
An out-of-work detective is hired to investigate the bombing of a nuclear plant. He never quite solves the mystery but what he does learn is far more important.

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1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    1-55155-338-4

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Genre:
105 mins

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Cheap Thrill

Synopsis:
A welfare mother takes a cabinet minister and an investor hostage in the fancy restaurant where her son works. When the investor's daughter joins them, sparks begin to fly.

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1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    1-55155-094-6

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Genre:
2 acts Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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City, The

Synopsis:
It's easy to be a big city liberal - until they want to open a halfway house on your street.

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1st Produced:
-    1991

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1st Published:
in Take Five, BlizzardPlaywrights Co-op, Toronto,    0-921368-21-6

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Genre:
Play/Drama One Act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Crusader of the World

Synopsis:
A teenager travels to a third-world country to participate in a development project. While there she comes to understand that the issues of the developing world are more complex then she had thought.

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1st Produced:
-    2000

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1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    0-88754-652-8

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama One Act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Facts

Synopsis:
The West Bank, 2012. A prominent American archaeologist is found dead, killed by a single shot to the heart, but who could hate an archaeologist enough to murder him? As two detectives - one Israeli, one Palestinian - work together to solve the case, they learn that the victim was making outlandish claims: what if the Exodus had never happened? No Moses, no slaves, and no Promised Land... Their prime suspect - an Israeli settler - is clearly guilty of something, but of what? In a world where fact and fiction have become blurred, what are they really looking for? Inspired by a true story, Facts is a thrilling and provocative play about what happens when the truth becomes too dangerous to reveal.

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1st Produced:
-    2009

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1st Published:
Contained in: "Two Plays About Israel/Palastine" published by iUniverse 2012   -

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Genre:
Drama

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Forest, The

Synopsis:
A modern fable about a remorseful captain of industry who pulls together an odd assortment of characters, including his three estranged daughters and two lost actors. Their mission? To establish a utopian society.

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1st Produced:
-    2003

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1st Published:
Playwrights Guild of Canada   1-55173-966-6

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Genre:
120 Min

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Intimacy

Synopsis:
Alex and Frauke meet in Nazi Germany. They only feel alive when death is near

Notes:
Original Playwright - Emma Hache

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1st Published:
Contained in: "Anthology of Quebec Women's Plays In English Translation volume Two" published by Playwrights Canada Press   -

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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It's Not a Country It's Winter

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1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    -

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Joan Henry

Synopsis:
Part fairy tale, part political fable, JOAN HENRY is the story of young woman and her incredible, improbable rise to the status of political/national/popular hero.

Notes:
Written by Arthur Milner, Allen Cole, Estelle Shook

1st Produced:
-    2003

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Guild of Canada   1-55173-198-6

Music:
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Genre:
105 min Musical

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  4

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Learning to Live with Personal Growth

Synopsis:
Jeff's relationship with his wife is going nowhere and his job has become more boring and more difficult, but then he makes two new friends who change his life forever.

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1st Produced:
-    1991

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1st Published:
in New Canadian Drama 5, BOR   0-88887-098-1

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy One Act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Masada

Synopsis:
A visiting Israeli professor delivers a stunning and disquieting lecture about the history of Israel.

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1st Produced:
-    1994

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1st Published:
in Singular Voices, PLCN   0-88754-510-6

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama One Act

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Sandinista!

Synopsis:
A priest, a student, a peasant and two members of the National Guard take us through the five years leading up to Nicaragua's overthrow of the Somoza dynasty.

Notes:
Written with the Great Canadian Theatre Company collective.

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1st Published:
Playwrights Guild of Canada   1-55155-648-0

Music:
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Genre:
2 acts Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Zero Hour

Synopsis:
Two CIA operatives and a young mercenary find themselves in a Costa Rican jail. No one seems to know why. Who would arrest U.S. citizens in Costa Rica? And why?

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1st Produced:
-    2004

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    0-80206-812-X

Music:
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Genre:
75 min One Act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

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